Battlefield 4 has had its share of problems across platforms. Despite that, EA and DICE are rolling out the first map pack. China Rising is available now for those that purchased the $50 Premium upgrade.

The China Rising pack includes four maps: Silk Road, with giant sand dunes; Altai Range, land and air battle for control of the mountains; Guilin Peaks, focused on close-quarter fighting in caves; and Dragon Pass, a reimagining of Battlefield 2's Dragon Valley map. The pack will be available for non-Premium members on December 17 for $14.99.

Unfortunately, the news isn't all good. The promised PlayStation 4 update that was supposed to go live today has been delayed. "The PS4 game update that was originally meant to go live Dec 3 is undergoing some additional testing and will be rescheduled for a later date." DICE says. "We will get back with final details as soon as we have verification that the update is good to go."

This patch is designed to eliminate a few problems, including unintended one-hit kills, missing sound on video capture, and crashes due to having too many friends. No news is available yet on further fixes to stability and server-browser issues.

As we reported following the last patch, the game still experiences crashes and server-browser errors. For those hoping for a patch to the party system, which doesn't allow pre-game grouping, that won't be coming. According to EA and DICE, that system is working as intended.

Our TakeEA and DICE had problems with Battlefield 3's launch, and it's disappointing that two years weren't enough time to developer netcode and server infrastructure that work. I do not recommend purchasing a Premium membership until the game is working properly. Don't throw good money after bad.

I have two gtx 470's in sli and the game is still unplayable over a month after release. It drops to, no joke, 0-10 fps when i shoot at people, game stutters all the time, and on top of that it crashes. I payed 80 bucks for this game and i still have not been able to complete a multiplier match due to it not working, the game is utter crap.

Bummer that there are still issues for the game. I would have hoped they would clear them up by now. I also don't like the idea of releasing paid content if there are still prevalent issues in the core game. I feel that it would be smarter to delay the pack until the core game is functioning properly.

I'd just like to throw in my two cents that while Battlefield 4 may be having stability issues on the Playstation 4, it does in fact work fine on other platforms. I'll just assume the author of this article purchased BF4 on a PS4 and as a result is having a painful and frustrating experience.
That being said, I personally wouldn't tell others to not purchase the title just because of stability issues on one platform many likely still don't own. My personal advice though, purchase Battlefield titles on PC next time. That has always been DICE's primary platform and the game works perfectly fine on PC.

I wasted my money on premium I have yet to play 2nd assault on Xbox One because i can only find empty servers for the maps I tried to just wait on an empty server but after 5 minutes and nobody else joining I just gave up

For the most part, the PS4 version is fixed. I was able to play Conquest matches for the majority of the weekend with no problems. I was booted for the game a few times, though no where near as bad as before, and the game still freezes sometimes when I look at my friends list via the touchpad. If they can just fix the few problems that still linger, cause the game really is amazing.

Wait... how is it that they were able to make this map pack if their whole team was focused on fixing the broken product they sold? I was under the impression that these map packs were created after development of the game to justify the price for the dlc(sarcasm). F×××× EA man, your business practices are garbage.

Not buying premium until they fix exactly everything....good thing i didnt buy it along with the game. Seems like EA only cares about money....putting out map packs before fixing a half-ass game. I constantly get errors on the PS4

The issues I've been having with multiplayer have been relatively minor on PS4. My biggest annoyance so far is that my save file for the campaign keeps getting corrupted or deleted. Good thing I bought this game 99% for the multiplayer.

How can they delay patching in favour of a premium expansion? I eventually bought bf3 premium and I like bf4 as a game far more, but it makes no sense to release new content for the paying elite when some customers aren't able to play at all.